ife can throw us unforseen challenges... with the intention to make us grow, learn and develop into stronger, more resilient people. Its how we respond, react and deal with the challenges that matters. Its a little test from the universe and challenges are not meant to break us. I wanted to share a little story, or recent challenge, and what I learnt. Eighteen months ago, my husband and I were both employed in professional , decent paying jobs. We have two young boys and we were stressed and our relationship was not faring too well. I was not enjoying my job, I wanted out! So did he. I was offered a redundancy.… woo hoo! I was happy to leave it all behind me and start fresh, focus on the boys and plan my future. However..... my husband was also made redundant! Oh Oh. Had we created this with our intention and vibrations? I believe so. The universe always listens. We wanted out, so it showed us the door! Feeling our new found freedom, we both started our own businesses. Security of income was a thing of the past. We were both working from home. We were in a state of panic and madly trying to achieve things we were not yet ready to achieve. Our focus was on not having enough. Not having enough to pay the bills. Not having enough. Not having enough. And guess what??.......we of course, didn’t have enough! The more we worried about not having enough, the less we had. The more we stressed, the more stressful life got. It was a destructive cycle... I believe in the power of our thoughts and the law of attraction. I tried to focus on abundance and prosperity, but they were just words..... the energy behind my words and affirmations did not align. I was manifesting lack on a subconscious and conscious level. I had a ‘turn-around’ moment, when our hot water system broke down, we couldn’t afford $1,00 for a new one. We went 11 days with no hot water. I was boiling 30 pots of water a day. A beautiful, generous and amazing friend dropped us off bags of groceries to help us out, I cried and I cried some more. I don’t usually cry. It was one of those rock bottom moments. Something had to change. That something was my attitude and thoughts. I refused to break. I was strong. I CHOSE to remain positive. I CHOSE to attract a new lifestyle. I had faith that things would be ok, and I focused on gratitude. Gratitude for everything I did have. Gratitude for the cold water I had, and the electricity I had to boil the water. Gratitude for my family. Gratitude for my abilities. Gratitude for the lessons and gratitude for the new found appreciation, love
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and strength me and my husband had for each other. Gratitude for EVERTHING! I then found myself holding a book on the law of attraction... you probably know the one?.. ‘The Secret’. I had never read it, because I thought it was nothing I didn’t already know. But oh my, it gave me a jolt, a kick in the bum and a wake up call!! Yes, I was creating my reality.... Woopsy! I began to REALLY change my thoughts, my beliefs, my energy and my focus. More and more, through awareness, releasing, healing and unwavering faith, I got myself back into a more empowered position. I did a lot of work on myself. I stopped focusing on making money, and started really focusing on what was blocking my abundance. I focused on having everything I needed. I FELT secure and I FELT safe. This time my energy and vibration had changed and I focused everything on this. I focused my energy on helping my husband to raise his vibration and energy and faith too. The best thing about our journey is that it brought us closer together. The kids were great and didn’t ask for anything at all. We were always honest with them, and assured them it was only temporary. We shifted our focus. We focused on abundance..... My husband found his ideal job 3 weeks ago... There were heaps of applicants... he got it! Woo hoo! He starts next week. We had to sell one of our cars a while back to carry us through.... His job comes with a new fancy car...and he still wo